Nadine's attack on scrougers lacks credibility

Nadine Dorries MP for Mid Bedfordshire has been blogging about a constituent of hers who has tweeted 35,000 times in six months. Many of this persons tweet relate to nights out and drinking, yes you guessed the constituent is unemployed but seems to spend no time at all looking for work.  I whole heartedly agree with questioning whether this person should be receiving benefits but believe that Nadine's attack lacks credibility; here's why.

As a society we failed to clean up the Houses of Parliament following the expenses scandal. How can we expect benefit scroungers to take fraud seriously when so many of our MPs are guilty of expenses fraud? There is basically no difference they are both helping themselves from the public purse.

It is an absolute prerequisite for good governance that our elected representatives are honest.

Miss Dorries is the MP who defended the now discredited old expenses system and claimed that the expenses were really part of their salary and therefore an entitlement. She accused The Telegraph of launching “McCarthyite witch hunts” against MPs and suggested that the prospect of having their expenses published had left many of them “beginning to crack”.

To many her rant against scroungers will seem like just a laughable case of the pot calling the kettle black.

MPs lacking the moral authority to deal with social issues; that is the real cost to taxpayers of failing to clean up Parliament.
Best Wishes
Will

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Did anyone notice how many times the word "sorry" occurred in Ed Millibands speech to the Labour Party Conference.  I listened carefully to the whole speech and didn't hear it at all.   I checked on the Internet there I found a count of various buzz word used in his speech; Generation 41 times, New 34, Responsibility 22, Society 15, Immigration 6 Journey 5, but sorry didn't appear once.

Towards the end of his speech Ed talked about Labours journey back to power; this is what he said;

"This week we embark on the journey back to power.
It will be a long journey involving hard thinking for our party.
We do not start that journey by claiming we know all the answers now.
We do so by setting a direction of change. "

He is wrong "setting a direction of change" is the second step of their journey.  The first step is to say sorry; until Labour do that their journey will not even have begun.
Best Wishes
Will